If you thought Lady Gaga was weird, check out what happens in Sweden. This
is electro sensation Fever Ray, popular in indie music circles in the
U.S., giving her acceptance speech after winning “best dance artist” at
P3 Gold, a Swedish equivalent of the Grammys. …
Anyone who thinks that the business of derivatives ended with the financial crisis had better check out the recent trading volumes released by the derivatives exchange company CME Group.
Just this January, total derivatives trading volume shot up 19% year over year, with
particularly feverish activity in interest rate derivatives (for fixed
income, Up 33%),…
We can expect a great deal of controversy with Yemen. We're currently told that Al-Qaeda operates in Yemen but is this true? Are there ANY Al-Qaeda members operating there or is that just a lie to obfuscate the truth? Well, what would YOU expect from the American government and the American media, the truth or a lie?
If you guessed a lie you would be right.
Allow a Yemeni scholar to provide you with an overview of the history and current conditions in Yemen by… Continue
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The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo in the course of transferring control of security operations to the breakaway province’s embryonic army (the Kosovo Security Force) and “the transformation efforts required to best conduct the full range of NATO’s agreed missions.”… Continue
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In the face of a changing fiscal and political environment, Congress and various states are belatedly rethinking their far-flung efforts to restructure and regulate the nation’s energy markets. The… Continue
(CNN) -- When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because
he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her
at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information -- Isabel received further testing and she doesn't…
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.
Porritt’s call will come at this week’s annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron.
The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.
Porritt said: “Population growth, plus economic… Continue
The Government's flagship ID cards scheme suffered an embarrassing setback when a bank refused to accept one as proof of identity.
Darren McTeggart tried to use the £30 card to pick up a replacement credit card from a branch of Santander – formerly Abbey – in Manchester, where the scheme was rolled out on a voluntary basis last year.
Mr McTeggart, one of the first people to get the card, said: “They said it was not on their list of approved ID.
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.
But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They're pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers so requests can be sent and received electronically.
I went to Best Buy and bought an HD radio tuner, no not that big like a home tuner, just something you can plug in a small pair of headphones and it was around $50. And right now the market and economy for HD radio is mediocre. The big commercial broadcasters are just playing music without waking up people, I mean the programming sounds like Muzak, Music Choice, or satellite radio. There are no DJ's behind the mixers, and its like they are just playing music that is it. HD-2, and HD-3 sounds… Continue
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Israel sells fear. By captivating and inundating American politicians with lobbyists from every corner they sell us terror, alarm and panic to justify their manipulation of our domestic and foreign policy. We're mesmerized into a state of apprehension and anxiety and we respond by allowing our freedoms to be abrogated at home while we murder innocent people globally.
It has been almost a week since President Obama gave his first State of the Union address, and it has been analyzed from the left, right, center, front, and back. Of course, the speech is really about the performance of the federal government, particularly its wonderful accomplishments under the leadership of the sitting president. This is not peculiar to the Obama presidency. As far back as Jefferson, presidents have used the Constitutionally-mandated stump speech to do a little… Continue
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Long-awaited Green Paper foresees new domestic role for Britain's services, with emphasis on greater co-operation as chiefs face up to budgetary constraints.
Britain's armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defence review announced yesterday.
Two of the six "key questions" to be considered by the SDR will focus on domestic threats which "cannot be separated… Continue
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better… Continue
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Here is the complete "Bel Air Fire" episode of the TV series "When Havoc Struck" from 1978. Includes intense footage and dramatic interviews from survivors o...